Hummingbirds

 

We got Ruby-throated Hummingbirds at our feeder today.  The first of the season.

 

The weather just bumps along, high seventies, low eighties, with a breeze (sometimes a wind) from the southeast.  No migrants to speak of.  The occasional Yellow-rumped Warbler.  Savannah Sparrows.  But they’ve both been here all winter.  We think with that tailwind the little birds all just cruising right on past.  No need to stop at the first land if you’re not even tired yet.  Bad news for the birders clustered here, binoculars at the ready.  Probably great news for the migrant birds.

 

If a front moves through and we get a blow from the north, that will knock a few birds down so we can see them.  Great news for us.  Not so good for the birds.

 

I’m fine with favorable weather just blowing them right on past.  They could use the occasional break.  Speaking of breaks, Spring Break has come and gone.  Warm gentle weather throughout.  Port Aransas had an extra hundred thousand visitors.  That’s noticeable in a town of less than four thousand.  A well behaved crowd though.  Less than three hundred arrests.